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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places in Hampshire, Lancashire, Shropshire, and Staffordshire named Forton, from Old English ford ‘ford’ + tūn ‘settlement’, ‘enclosure’.
  • French : variant of Fortin.

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